'South Pacific' to Push the Waves of Love Again

After becoming an instant classic when it hit the stage back in 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific has spent most of its sixty-one year old life celebrating in the immediacy of the live performance, save two moments. First, in 1958, a cinematic adaptation was whipped up by director Joshua Logan, which won an Oscar for Best Sound, and a nomination for both score and color cinematography. Many years later, in 2001, a television film was offered up by NBC, starring the likes of Glenn Close and Harry Connick Jr.